eBay app buggy? Auction bids entered way too high?

The official eBay app for Windows Phone has been out for some time and while the Marketplace reviews aren't stellar, they don't really call for you to run for the hills either. Yet we received a tip from a German reader that there could be a potentially disastrous bug in the app.

It appears that while bidding on a Nokia Lumia 800 a bid was entered as 211.69€ and appeared that way in the confirmation screen. However, when the bid was submitted it registered as 21169.00€. Luckily the ending bid didn't make it that far, ending at 270 Euros.

According to the tipster, eBay Germany was contacted and recommended contacting the seller to request a cancelation. While we first thought this could easily be pilot error, in scanning through the Marketplace reviews on the eBay app (found here at the Windows Phone Marketplace), other Windows Phone users report similar instances where the confirmed bid is higher than the submitted bid.

We aren't sure if this is a wide spread issue and hopefully if this is a bug, the quirk can be resolved easily with an update to the app. Still, bug or not, you might want to be extra careful to review your eBay bids when submitting via the Windows Phone app. If my recollection of eBay is correct, an incorrectly submitted bid can be canceled before the auction closes.

I've been using the app recently on my Lumia 800 and thankfully I've not encountered the issue. It sounds like you need to go over a certain amount of figures, combined with flaky parsing and you've got yourself a nasty bug!

I'm also wondering what the point of the individual auction live tiles is supposed to be. If you pin an auction to your home screen, it puts a live tile with the picture of the item on one side and on the other? Nothing. It just says eBay. I was hoping it would show the price and/or the ending date of the auction or time left. Kinda pointless as it is.

I encountered this problem as well. It's more a usability issue than a bug.
In Germany, we seperate decimals with a comma, and thousands with points. So 1.95$ = 1,95€ and 1.95€ = 1,950$.
The problem is, that the german version of eBay shows only the point by default, you have to press and hold it to see the comma.
Still, the app DOES show you the correct amount before you confirm your bid.

Had the same issue.
Wanted to bid 270€ on an iPhone but the App let me bid 27000 €. I guess something with the comma and dot seperation in 270.00 and 270,00 is buggy. in Europe 270€ are 270,00 € which means 270 EURO and 00 CENTS. In the US 270$ are 270.00. The app is american so if you bid 270,00 EURO it doesn't recognize the comma and takes 27000 EUR. Not funny -,-

Sadly just like Imperial unit and the IU, there’s no agreeing about dot and comma. Then there’s the Sunday/Monday first day of week and month/day vs day/month. There’s other apps that had this problem too and make big mistake such as for GPS coordinate, but they don’t deal with money.